VFS Final Accept to Online Film Fest

The day has finally come! My Vancouver Film School final, a 10-minute short film entitled Prometheus, has been officially selected from more than 2000 other submissions to be a part of the Babelgum Online Film Festival, which is being hosted by none other than the influential and prolific director and filmmaker, Spike Lee!

So of course, I encourage all of you to download the Babelgum TV program here, so that you can create an account, view my short film and if it's not asking too much, vote very graciously towards the film so that I might be able to win upwards to €20,000 as well as meet Spike Lee at a gala luncheon in Cannes, France! The other bonus is that for every advertisement that accompanies my film, I get a share of the profits. So help me out and watch my film as many times as possible so I can make a dime in the process. Trust me! I promise not to forget all the people that help me work my way towards fame and fortune! (*Fingers crossed*)

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I would like to preface, however with a few thoughts and explanations about my short film. For me, this was an attempt to "break all the rules" of cinema; an attempt to get across a concept that was possibly too complex for the short film format; but most importantly, it was an experiment to see how far I could push the envelope in questioning traditional cinema conventions and to try and employ the use of special effects and compositing to explore the problem of translating internal conflict onto the screen.

In retrospect, I would probably have gained more from doing a simpler film, but I'm all about the challenge, and now that I've experimented so vastly on this project, I'm ready to focus my talents on a more story-driven and more 'conventional' approach to film.

Thank you all for your support and please find the embedded site below.

Prometheus
**I'm not sure if this is working for anyone else, but if not you can use the following links:
-Prometheus on Babelgum
-Babelgum Online Film Festival
-Download Babelgum TV

Finalist

Remember that Mobile Jamfest thing I mentioned down there \/ ?



Well thanks to all the super-dooper people that voted for my movie, Red Army has been nominated as a finalist for the festival! That means that I'm one of the final 3 in my catagorie (Animation)!



So go to http://www.mobilejamfest.com/content/tpl_videos.asp?cat=9 and vote for the movie Red Army so I can win some stuff! Why? Because you love me and if I win I'll let you come over and play Xbox 360! ;)



Other quick updates:

-moving into a new place with 3 other guys from school. Already have our stuff there, start living there when we get back from the break -- psyched!
-going home today for Xmas break -- gonna be a blast!

-had my term 2 life drawing exam yesterday -- improved a lot again this time; pic to follow

-finished my Sequential Media final group-project this weekend and showed it on monday. This is a short film we made, experimenting with a bunch of different filming techniques and frame composition rules. It was a lot of fun to make and hopefully I'll have it posted up on Youtube pretty soon here so I can show you what we did.





Here's my favorite drawing fo the 5 I did for my exam, the pose is rather reminiscent of my highlight pic from last test; I don't know why I can end up drawing the hardest poses best. I just wish I another 10 or 15 minutes so that I could properly finish her left hand and her head, then I think it would be a really nice drawing. Tell me what you think.

Peace!

Self Portrait

Today I decided to do a litte self portait of... well... myself! The outcome was actually rather suprising to me; probably one of the best, if not the best drawing I've done to date. There are a few flaws with proportion, but over all I'm extremely happy with it--actually more suprised than anything! :P

Tell me what you think of it.

Colour Theory

You know what’s really sweat about being colour blind? Well it definitely isn’t having to take “Colour Theory” classes in Foundation! ;) But you know what? It’s actually kind of fun, doing stuff that doesn’t really make any sense to me, but everyone else seems to think looks hilarious.

Take this painting I made of a rainbow for instance:



I’m joking, of course, I’m not THAT colour blind, this was just an exercise in depicting “value”, but it’s still sort of annoying…

That having been said, check out the dinosaur I painted:



It looks pretty decent to me… but how would I know? ;)

Life Drawing

The other day I got my term 1 test for Life Drawing back and aside from the picture to the left, I could have sworn that I failed it! Well I got my marks and found out that, to my surprise, i actually did pretty good on it. Though Life Drawing is not necesarily my strong suite, I managed to pull off an 89% (HURRAY!) - one of my only marks below 90%.

The top picture is probably my best drawing to date, definitely a long way from my "Goro" picture! (Below)